Culinary article.



0. D. BROSSIA.

CUINARY ARTICLE.

APPLlcmrmN FILED sammy, 1912.

State ,of

in sTraT OLIVER DBRGSSIA, 0F PERRYSBURG, OHO.

CULINARY AnroLE.

Loaaaea.

Specification ofLetters Patent.

application sied :fune 2a, reis.

Serial No. 706,803.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, OLIVER D. BRossIA, a citizen of the United States, residing at Perrysbur in the county of Wood and hio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Culinary Articles, of which the following is a specication, referencebeing had to the accompanyn ing drawings.

`and useful improvements in culinary appliances and relates particularly to the improved construction which'may be eifectu'A ally used as a device for cutting the cores, paring or slicing vegetables and fruits.

The primary object' of the present in vention is to so construct an ordinary knife `blade that the same may be used to perform the above named functions, and which consists of the necessary requirements of siniplicity, durability and cheapness in the cost of manufacture. With vthe above and other objects in view, this invention consists of the novel details of construction, combination, formation and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, claimed and particularly pointed out in the appended draw-' ings, in which Figure l is a perspective view of the knife constructed invaccordance with my invention. Fig. 2-is a top plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2, andFig; l is'a detail section taken on the l1ne4e-4 of Fig. 2. v

Referring now more particularly to the drawings wherein corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following specication and indicated in the accompanying drawings by like numerals, the numeral l indicates the blade of an ordinary culinary knife having@` secured at one end thereof a handle 2 in any well known or preferred manner. 'lhei blade l of the knife is constructed of the .usual continuous piece of flat steel having an inclined forward edge 3 which tapers to a point at the lower edge of the knife, as at 4. The inclined edge of theknife as well as the lower edge thereof, are sharpened in' the usual manner f or a purpose which will be hereinafter described. In forming an ordinary knife blade as before described so that itV may be used as a corer'and parer and at the same time to be used for slicing vegetables and fruit, I

blade, a V-shaped notch 5 which divides the knife into two sections. The larger section of the knife, indicated by the numeral 6, may be used for slicing fruit or vegetables in the usual manner, and the opposite or shorter section, indicated by the numeral 7, is so constructed that the same may be used for paring and coring fruit or vegetables.

. The lower edge of the shorter section 7 is This lnvention comprehends certain new' curved, as shown, and increases vin curvature toward the outer extremity thereof, while the upper edge thereof, indicated by the numeral 8, is also curved and increases in' curvature toward the outer extremity thereof, so that the extremity of the knife blade will be substantially semi-circular in cross section, as more clearly illustrated in `Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawing.

it is obvious from this construction that the section 6 of the knife l^lade may be used for slicing vegetables or fruit in the usual manner, and the outer curved section may be used for cutting the cores of apples and for paring the same or like fruits or vegeta-bles.

The pointed extension, indicated' byv the numeral Ll, of the blade is for the purpose of cutting out the stems or other parts of vegetables that are to be discarded, the outer edge of this portion of the blade enabling this vcutting out portion to be performed very expeditiously. The shorter "section of the blade is also adapted to be used for paring purposes as the lower sharpened edge is used to cut into and lift the edge ofthe peel, whereupon the free edge of the peel is clamped between the thumb and the curved portion of the blade or peeled olf.

Itis obvious from the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings that the practi.

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and then pulled The herein described article of culinary,

comprising a flat blade having a lower cutting edge, the lower edge thereof being of greater length than the opposite edge thereof there by forming an inclined outer end, the lower cutting edge of the bladev having a V-shaped notch formed therein dividing the same into two sections .of different lengths, the

upper end of thesmaller section being pro- V section being curved transversely and in-V l extremity of the lower cutting edge termi- Lomme vided With a cutting edge, the said smaiier mating in a point, substantially as an for A1D the purpose specied.

In testimony Whereot` I hereunto aix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

OLVER D. BROSSL.,

creasing in curvature toward the outer extremity thereof, the said blade having the chords of its curves converging to the lower outer end of the smaller section. the outer extremity of said blade being Substantially semieireuiur in cross-section, and the outer Witnesses 1 ALFRED G. DIBERT, E. O. TIPPIN. 

